Subject: [Tweeters] Renton residents trying to solve mystery of
Date: Feb 24 18:49:13 2013
From: Nina Bohn - ninabohn at comcast.net


I live just next to the Rolling Hills neighborhood, maybe 2 blocks, and I can tell you that I have no less than 3 Cooper's hawks of differing ages and genders plus an occasional Sharp-shinned Hawk male that come by daily. I have to say it was very helpful at the beginning of the season when the Pine Siskins invaded. My regular birds still occur daily (stats base on a comparison of this years and last years daily feederwatch data.) I did see a big female Coopers hawk take a starling the other day. It was great.

-Nina Bohn

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> Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2013 19:05:07 -0800
> From: "Wayne Weber" <contopus at telus.net>
> Subject: RE: [Tweeters] Renton residents trying to solve mystery of
> disappearing birds
> To: "TWEETERS" <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
> Cc: KOMO NEWS <tips at komo4news.com>
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> I saw this news item on KOMO news. There are any number of reasons why
> there could be fewer birds at this feeder, or in that section of Renton,
> this winter than last winter. Even if this decrease is real, it is likely
> just a very local phenomenon and does not reflect region-wide trends. It
> could be that a Sharp-shinned Hawk or other predator has taken up residence
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> Blaming the decrease on "smart meters" demonstrates only the ignorance of
> both the feeder operators and the news reporter. There is not the slightest
> evidence that smart meters have any effect on birds or on anything else.
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> It is too bad that the KOMO news staff did not consult a knowledgeable
> ornithologist before running this rubbish as "news".
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> Wayne C. Weber
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> Delta, BC
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> contopus at telus.net
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